Diversity in the later Paleogene proboscidean radiation: A small barytheriid from the Oligocene of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-141

  Seiffert, Erik R ^a   Nasir, Sobhi ^b   Al Harthy, Abdulrahman ^b   Groenke, Joseph R ^a   Kraatz, Brian P ^c   Stevens, Nancy J ^d   Al Sayigh, Abdul Razak ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c Western University of Health Sciences   (United States)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Afro Arabia; Afrotheria; Deinotheriidae; Paenungulata; Tethytheria

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANT; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; PHYLOGENETICS; RADIATION BALANCE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MANDIBLE; OMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMALS); SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOSSILS; MANDIBLE; OMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROBOSCIDEA MAMMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOOTH;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; OMAN;

AFROTHERIA; BARYTHERIIDAE; DEINOTHERIIDAE; ELEPHANTIDAE; PAENUNGULATA; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMAL);

EID: 84857036337     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0878-9     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Andrews CW (1906) A descriptive catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayum, Egypt; based on the collection of the Egyptian Government in the Geological Museum, Cairo, and on the collection in the British Museum (Natural History). Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London
2. AK Behrensmeyer R Potts T Plummer L Tauxe N Opdyke T Jorstad 1995 The Pleistocene locality of Kanjera, western Kenya-stratigraphy, chronology, and paleoenvironments J Hum Evol 29 3 247 274 10.1006/jhev.1995.1059 (Pubitemid 26440005)
3. MT Clementz PA Holroyd PL Koch 2008 Identifying aquatic habits of herbivorous mammals through stable isotope analysis Palaios 23 574 585 10.2110/palo.2007.p07-054r
4. N Court 1994 The periotic of Moeritherium (Mammalia, Proboscidea): homology or homoplasy in the ear region of Tethytheria McKenna, 1975? Zool J Linn Soc 112 13 28 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1994.tb00310.x
5. N Court 1995 A new species of Numidotherium (Mammalia: Proboscidea) from the Eocene of Libya and the early phylogeny of the Proboscidea J Vert Paleontol 15 3 650 671 10.1080/02724634.1995.10011254
6. Delmer C (2005) The first stages in the differentiation of proboscideans: the role of Barytherium grave from Libya (Translated from French). Ph.D., Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
7. C Delmer 2009 Reassessment of the generic attribution of Numidotherium savagei and the homologies of lower incisors in proboscideans Acta Palaeont Pol 54 561 580 10.4202/app.2007.0036
8. C Delmer M Mahboubi R Tabuce P Tassy 2006 A new species of Moeritherium (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Eocene of Algeria: new perspectives on the ancestral morphotype of the genus Palaeontology 49 421 434 10.1111/j.1475-4983. 2006.00548.x (Pubitemid 44056496)
9. D Domning CE Ray MC McKenna 1986 Two new Oligocene desmostylians and a discussion of tethytherian systematics Smithson Contrib Paleobiol 59 1 56
10. MP Ferretti R Debruyne 2011 Anatomy and phylogenetic value of the mandibular and coronoid canals and their associated foramina in proboscideans (Mammalia) Zool J Linn Soc 161 391 413 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00637.x
11. E Gheerbrant 2009 Paleocene emergence of elephant relatives and the rapid radiation of African ungulates Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106 10717 10721 19549873 10.1073/pnas.0900251106 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1MXos1ajt7s%3D
12. E Gheerbrant P Tassy 2009 L'origine et l'évolution des éléphants Comptes Rendus Palevol 8 281 294 10.1016/j.crpv.2008.08. 003
13. E Gheerbrant J Sudre H Capetta M Iarochène M Amaghzaz B Bouya 2002 A new large mammal from the Ypresian of Morocco: evidence of surprising diversity of early proboscideans Acta Palaeont Pol 47 3 493 506 (Pubitemid 34973817)
14. E Gheerbrant J Sudre P Tassy M Amaghzaz B Bouya M Iarochene 2005 New data on Phosphatherium escuilliei (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the early Eocene of Morocco, and its impact on the phylogeny of Proboscidea and lophodont ungulates (Translated from French) Geodiversitas 27 2 239 333 (Pubitemid 41001284)
15. JM Harris 1973 Prodeinotherium from Gebel Zelten, Libya Bull Brit Mus Nat Hist (Geol) 23 211 274
16. Harris JM (1978) Deinotherioidea and Barytherioidea. In: Maglio VJ, Cooke HBS (eds) Evolution of African mammals. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp 315-332
17. AGSC Liu ER Seiffert EL Simons 2008 Stable isotope evidence for an amphibious phase in early proboscidean evolution Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105 15 5786 5791 18413605 10.1073/pnas.0800884105 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1cXltFShsbw%3D (Pubitemid 351758450)
18. M Mahboubi R Ameur JY Crochet JJ Jaeger 1984 Earliest known proboscidean from early Eocene of north-west Africa Nature 308 543 544 6709061 10.1038/308543a0 1:STN:280:DyaL2c7mvVWlsw%3D%3D (Pubitemid 15272661)
19. M Mahboubi R Ameur J-Y Crochet J-J Jaeger 1986 El Kohol (Saharan Atlas, Algeria): a new Eocene mammal locality in northwestern Africa Palaeontographica, Abt A 192 15 49
20. H Matsumoto 1923 A contribution to the knowledge of Moeritherium Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 48 97 139
21. WJ Murphy E Eizirik SJ O'Brien O Madsen M Scally CJ Douady E Teeling OA Ryder MJ Stanhope WW de Jong MS Springer 2001 Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics Science 294 2348 2351 11743200 10.1126/science.1067179 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3MXptFGrtrg%3D (Pubitemid 33140557)
22. WJ Murphy TH Pringle TA Crider MS Springer W Miller 2007 Using genomic data to unravel the root of the placental mammal phylogeny Genome Res 17 413 421 17322288 10.1101/gr.5918807 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2sXktFGnsb8%3D (Pubitemid 46556445)
23. A Noubhani L Hautier J-J Jaeger M Mahboubi R Tabuce 2008 Dental and cranial variability of Numidotherium koholense (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from El Kohol, Eocene, Algeria Geobios 41 515 531 10.1016/j.geobios.2007.09.002 10.1016/j.geobios.2007.09.002
24. Osborn HF (1936) Proboscidea: a monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the mastodonts and elephants of the world. I: Moeritherioidea, Deinotherioidea, Mastodontoidea. The American Museum Press, New York
25. DT Rasmussen M Gutierrez 2009 A mammalian fauna from the late Oligocene of northwestern Kenya Palaeontographica, Abt A 288 1 52
26. J Roger S Sen H Thomas C Cavelier Z Al Sulaimani 1993 Stratigraphic, paleomagnetic and paleoenvironmental study of the early Oligocene vertebrate locality of Taqah (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman) Newsl Stratigr 28 2/3 93 119
27. WJ Sanders DT Rasmussen J Kappelman 2004 New large-bodied mammals from the late Oligocene site of Chilga, Ethiopia Acta Palaeont Pol 49 365 392 (Pubitemid 39008175)
28. Sanders WJ, Gheerbrant E, Harris JM, Saegusa H, Delmer C (2010) Proboscidea. In: Werdelin L, Sanders WJ (eds) Cenozoic mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp 161-251
29. RJG Savage 1969 Early Tertiary mammal locality in southern Libya Proc Geol Soc Lond 1657 167 171
30. ER Seiffert 2006 Revised age estimates for the later Paleogene mammal faunas of Egypt and Oman Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 5000 5005 16549773 10.1073/pnas.0600689103 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD28XjsVGlsLs%3D
31. ER Seiffert 2007 A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence BMC Evol Biol 7 224 17999766 10.1186/1471-2148-7-224 (Pubitemid 351294823)
32. ER Seiffert 2010 The oldest and youngest records of afrosoricid placentals from the Fayum Depression of northern Egypt Acta Palaeont Pol 55 4 599 616 10.4202/app.2010.0023 10.4202/app.2010.0023
33. Swofford DL (1998) PAUP*Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (*and Other Methods), version 4. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland
34. P Tassy 1987 A hypothesis on the homology of proboscidean tusks based on paleontological data Am Mus Novit 2895 1 18
35. H Thomas J Roger S Sen C Boudillon-de-Grissac Z Al-Sulaimani 1989 Découverte de Vertébrés fossiles dans l'Oligocène inférieur du Dhofar (Sultanat d'Oman) Geobios 22 1 101 120 10.1016/S0016-6995(89)80091-9 (Pubitemid 19314474)